The Allegory of the Cave
I have read this piece of work before and I have also been asked to draw a picture of it so this was nothing new to me. As i started reading it for the first time, I began drawing the picture beccause i'm a visual learner. I looked more closly at the ending and the words that were used when i read it through the second time around. This piece of work could be interpreted into many things. For the most basic of things, it remind me of rich and poor. People who are poor see prices of items, they see pieces of food thrown away. They are much more observant to the dark side of the picture. While more wealthy people don't see the darkness. They do not see the prices of items, they do not pay attention to detail. They are living the life. If a rich person became poor, and had to go live with the poor people, i do not believe they could adapt as well and that the poor people would ridicule them for being rich at one point. They are different and would shun them out. We tend to fear what is different or what is unknown. Everytime I read this it always makes me more grateful for what i have. I am a big observer of people so when i read this, i really observe the little things in life like the sun and the shadows.
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